Vallejo rap legend E-40 gets into the wine biz

When Vallejo rap legend E-40 was coming up in Vallejo, he was just known as Earl Stevens, and the vineyard acreage that’s creeping into the hills at the edge of town definitely wasn’t there.

But Feezy is a connoisseur now (“From spitting in the bucket to clearing my mouth out with water so I could taste it again, all the flavors poked out,” E-40 told BlackEnterprise.com) and he’s now slinging wine under the name of “Earl Stevens Selections.”

He’s no newcomer to the beverage business, having launched 40 Water energy drink in 2007, but this is just ridiculous even if he has come a long way since recording “Carlos Rossi” back in 1993 when he didn’t know how to correctly spell the jug wine maker’s name.